Natural and cryptic peptides dominate the immunopeptidome of atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors.
Ana MarcuAndreas SchlosserAnne KeuppNico TrautweinPascal JohannMatthias WölflJohanna LagerCamelia Maria MonoranuJuliane S WalzLisa M HenkelJürgen KraußMartin EbingerMartin SchuhmannUlrich Wilhelm ThomaleTorsten PietschErdwine KlinkerPaul G SchlegelFlorian OyenYair ReisnerHans-Georg RammenseeMatthias EyrichPublished in: Journal for immunotherapy of cancer (2022)
These findings highlight that AT/RTs, potentially paradigmatic for other pediatric tumors with a low mutational load, present a variety of highly immunogenic HLA class I and class II peptides from canonical as well as non-canonical protein sources. Inclusion of such cryptic peptides into therapeutic vaccines would enable an optimized mapping of the tumor cell surface, thereby reducing the likelihood of immune evasion.